While in the redwoods in CA, I stood at the top of a bridge watching a bunch of guys swing out on rope swing and let go to plummet into a river below. Was pretty cool. Could have stayed there for a while but started getting vertigo from leaning over and all the cars rushing past behind me.
I get my film back from the trip tomorrow morning. Will be cool. First film I’ve shot in months. Akuri also brought the Hasselblad 500 CM with her so am excited to see …
Kal posted a shot on http://www.lostinfocus.org/?p=10882 that reminded us of a shot from Craig. Here’s my own hat tip to the both of them. Taken somewhere along the Californian coast with a Panasonic G3 and 50-200 Zoom.
A couple of weeks back I got invited by a good friend to join his family on a hot air balloon ride before work. Got up at 4am to drive over to Woodinville and caught a morning flight. Pretty awesome experience. The feeling of being up there in a balloon is fascinating. As you travel with the speed of the wind, it’s totally silent (save for the sound of gas being deployed) and has a strange feeling of weightlessness. Depsite the great experience, it’s kinda hard to photograph unless you’re …
I just returned back from a week trip down Highway 1 through California. Definitely my kind of trip… Lots of driving, photography, video and dogs on the beach. We ended up spending just a couple of hours in SF on the way back before doing the SF -> Seattle drive in one stretch (15 hours) to get back in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to meet up with any photographer friends while down there cause our time was so limited. Took lots of …
It’s been about two months since I got the G3 and moved to it as my primary digital system. That basically means I sold my Canon 5D Mark II and started using the micro four thirds system for all my digital photography (I still keep a couple of L lenses just in case) . It’s been a pretty inspiring few weeks as the benefits of the system has suited my style and sensibilities perfectly this summer. I keep my film / medium format system for when I decide to do …
My other shots – this time with people knocking about on the mountain. Shots with the new Oly 12mm f2.
Maybe my favourite shot from the day and a candidate for my Horizons series
World’s highest snowball fight (well not exactly but pretty high)
Testing out the ledge
The View
Went on a hike to Rainier this weekend. First time up there. Probably walked 5 or 6 miles through rock and snow (in the middle of summer). Great day and beautiful place – it’s truly a breathtaking mountain and a very different scale to when we flew around one morning last year. Here’s a couple of shots – taken with a new Olympus 12mm f2 lens on my Panasonic G3. Am really enjoying shooting with the Micro Four Thirds system lately. It’s so portable and the latest cameras and lenses …
A couple more shots… My fairly random phase of just capturing what comes natural continues. Really enjoying this somewhat meandering right. Will get serious again soon (starting with a trip next month most likely) but in the meantime, having fun experimenting. BTW, my trial of Lightroom ran out and picked it up for $149 on new egg. V good price for some awesome software.
Panasonic G3 + Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 (top image) and Switar 26mm f1.1 (bottom image)
Nothing major to report – just continuing to shoot average but fun photography :). Here’s a couple from our regular walk around greenlake. This location is a great walk with the dogs although it never offers anything particularly exciting. Here were a couple that i managed to do something with.
Panasonic G3 + Switar 26mm f1.1
